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Chicago's pop-core quartet Fall Out Boy
(bassist and songwriter Pete Wentz, vocalist Joe Trohman, bassist Patrick Strump drummer Andy Hurley)
emerged from the legion of punks playing melodic music thanks to
Take This To Your Grave (Fueled by Ramen, 2003),
a well-balanced collection of fast/catchy tunes with a general "emo" theme
(The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes,
Dead on Arrival,
Sending Postcards From A Plane Crash).
The idea of turning emo into fun was further refined on
From Under The Cork Tree (Island, 2005), with a more mainstream sound
and ditties
(Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner, Our Lawyer,
Of All the Gin Joints in the World)
that were even less demanding.
The singles
Dance Dance, Sugar and We're Goin Down
made them stars.
Infinity On High (Island, 2007) contains the
single This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arm's Race,
Thriller
and Hum Hallelujah, and showed real musicianship from the band.
Folie A Deux (2008) was there most ebullient collection yet but
with precious few ideas of where to go next.
Guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andrew Hurley joined the super-group
Damned Things.
Vocalist Patrick Stump released
Soul Punk (2011).
The band reformed for Save Rock And Roll (2013), a collection
of truly awful, bombastic synth-pop ballads.
Save the mildly more aggressive and quasi pop-metal
(Bon Jovi-era) My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark.
The punk-pop of PAX AM Days (2013) was merely an illusion, because
My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark
was the road to a mainstream synth-pop with loud guitars style that they pursued on
American Beauty / American Psycho (2015), with
the lively Centuries and the pensive
The Kids Aren't Alright,
and on
M A N I A (2018), with the
rocking Last of the Real Ones and the
Def Leppard-esque
Champion as well as nods at fashionable genres such as
trop-house (Hold Me Tight Or Don't),
dubstep (Young and Menace),
trap (Wilson, possibly the standout)
and reggaeton (Sunshine Riptide).
Make America Psycho Again (2015) is a collection of
remixes of their own songs adding rappers such as A$AP, Azealia Banks, Migos, Wiz Khalifa, etc.
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